{"id":23691,"date":"2021-10-19T12:15:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T15:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=23691"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:38:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:38:50","slug":"metro-manila-casinos-resume-operations-at-limited-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/metro-manila-casinos-resume-operations-at-limited-capacity","title":{"rendered":"Metro Manila casinos resume operations at limited capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>City of Dreams Manila has reopened its doors after Metro Manila moved to less restrictive Alert Level 3. The casino gaming floor is operating at 75 per cent capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The Philippines.- Although President Duterte\u2019s spokesperson Harry Roque said\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/manila-casinos-to-remain-closed-despite-easing-of-countermeasures\">casino venues will not reopen<\/a>\u00a0during Manila&#8217;s transition to Level 3 of Covid-19 restrictions,\u00a0some casinos have now<strong> resumed operations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to local media reports, the casino operators have received authorisation from the<strong>\u00a0Inter-Agency Task Force<\/strong>. City of Dreams Manila said <strong>its casino venue is operating at 75 per cent capacity<\/strong> and vaccination is not necessary for customers. It has also increased dining capacities in restaurants and reopened other facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Okada Manila and Solaire Resort and Casino have also resumed operations\u00a0<\/strong>at 75 per cent capacity. Casinos had been closed since <strong>August 6<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/manila-casinos-to-remain-closed-despite-easing-of-countermeasures\">Metro Manila<\/a>\u00a0has been placed on the less restrictive Alert Level 3 from October 16 to 31, 2021.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>In September, the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases started to test a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/manila-halts-the-easing-of-covid-19-restrictions\">\u201cfour-level\u201d system<\/a>\u00a0of <strong>\u201cgranular\u201d lockdowns<\/strong>, targeting areas of outbreaks rather than putting the entire province under restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City of Dreams Manila has reopened its doors after Metro Manila moved to less restrictive Alert Level 3. The casino gaming floor is operating at 75 per cent capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":18990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Integrated resorts in Metro Manila, including City of Dreams Manila, Okada Manila, and Solaire Resort and Casino, have resumed casino operations at 75% capacity under Alert Level 3, despite initial conflicting statements from presidential spokespersons. This reopening, authorized by the Inter-Agency Task Force, marks a significant step in the region's gaming sector recovery following extended closures.","focusai_entities":"City of Dreams Manila, Okada Manila, Solaire Resort and Casino, President Duterte, Harry Roque, Inter-Agency Task Force, Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases","focusai_location":"Philippines, Metro Manila, Manila","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.75), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Recovery Projections?","query":"What are the revised GGR recovery projections for Metro Manila's integrated resorts given the 75% capacity reopening and the shift to Alert Level 3?"},{"label":"Regulatory Consistency Impact?","query":"How will the initial conflicting regulatory statements regarding casino reopening impact investor confidence and future policy predictability for the Philippine gaming market?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,158,16333],"tags":[19841,23907,8986],"class_list":["post-23691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-slider-home","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-city-of-dreams-manila","tag-land-based-casino","tag-okada-manila"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23691"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23706,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23691\/revisions\/23706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}